Emma has 16 years of cyber security experience with a career spanning multiple industry sectors such as financial services, oil and gas, Big 4 and government. Emma is the CISO at Santander for Europe where she is responsible for driving the evolution and execution of the cyber security strategy and delivering on priorities. Emma joined Santander in 2018 from Barclays where she was the Director of Cyber Strategy and Program for Barclays International. Prior to Barclays, she was the CISO for BP’s Corporate Functions and Commodity Trading division. Emma is a board member of the Cyber Defence Alliance and sits on a number of cross industry and governmental cyber groups. Emma holds an MSc in Information Security from Royal Holloway, University of London. She was the winner of the CISO Supremo award from Security Serious Unsung Heroes Awards 2021 and was a finalist in the Women in IT Awards Security Champion of the Year in 2019.